On Tue 29-10-13 22:58:40, John Twideldum wrote: > >> The first ~170kb of /dev/sda got blown away with what seems to be a > >> logging output > >> by Powertop, when I was playing with the tuneables. > > > >So did you log the output to some file? I'm just trying to understand how > >it could get onto your disk in the first place... > > Attached a dump of the first 1Mb of the disk, HTH. > It looks like a powertop log? > (I have powertop 2.4) Yes, likely. But it is strange the corruption doesn't even end at any sensible boundary (data ends at offset 0x27b53). Shrug...
> meanwhile, testdisk running in all variations recovered enough clues to > guess the partitions correctly - the data is fine :-) Good. Honza -- Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/